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About
I mostly do meta-science and open science. Why? Because I strive to enable ecology (& ecologist) to do the best possible science with the highest impact on nature and society. Why? Cos we really need this! I also play piano & advocate for equity.
Biography
I am a senior scientist at the Ruder Boskovic Institute (Zagreb, Croatia) and honorary fellow at NIOO-KNAW.
My expertise covers evolutionary ecology of bonding, life-history trade offs, evidence synthesis, and data and code standards. I strive to apply my knowledge of different modelling approaches and Open Science to study and optimize scientific process itself - called meta-science and to enable ecological research to reach its full potential.
As a sole carer of a toddler, I have been experiencing many obstacles in managing my scientific career. I hope that being vocal about this can help in changing the current evaluation, expectation, and promotion systems in science, and encourage practices that accommodate those in less-common life-situations.
Get in touch if you have any questions about my work, ideas for collaborative projects, or if you think your group would benefit from a workshops on open practices, meta-science, or meta-analysis.
Research groups
CV
Employment
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2022–PresentSenior Research Fellow, Ruder Boskovic Institute, Croatia
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2022–PresentHonorary Fellow, NIOO-KNAW
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2018–2022Veni Research Fellow, NIOO-KNAW
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2016–2018Postdoc, NIOO-KNAW
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2015–2016Postdoc, University of Oxford
Education
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2010–2014DPhil in Zoology, University of Oxford, UK
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2003–2008BSc & MSc in Ecology, University of Zagreb
Grants
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2018Veni Individual Fellowship
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2022NLBIF Grant
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2021Lorentz Center Workshop Grant
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2020Dutch Data Prize and Open Science Use Case Award
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2017NWO Scientific Meetings Grant
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2017RDA EU Early Career support Programme
Editorial board memberships
2021–Present
Journal of Animal Ecology
Invited talks and keynote addresses on symposia and conferences
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2022Open Science Fund day
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2021AIMOS (Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-research and Open science) Conference
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2021Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Annual meeting 2021
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2021Software Management Plans
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2021FAIRsFAIR National Roadshow
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2020Better Research Through Better Data
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2020National Open Science Festival
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2019Wildlife Research & Conservation 2019
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2017Open Science Fair
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2014International Conference on Evolution and Behaviour
Publications
Key publications
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Trading up: the fitness consequences of divorce in monogamous birds
Projects & collaborations
Projects
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SPI-Birds Network and Database
SPI-Birds Network and Database (www.spibirds.org) is a centralized and community-driven initiative that connects researchers working on wild bird populations in which individuals are uniquely marked and recognized. SPI-Birds makes research groups and their datasets visible, provides systematic data archiving, ensures data quality and integrity, and facilitates data sharing and comparative, cross-dataset analyses. For this purpose, we have developed a data standard and series of data quality checks agreed upon by the community, which adhere to the FAIR principles.
Outreach
In my outreach I focus on communicating:
1) my work to the general public
2) struggles and wins of an everyday scientists. Science must be more inclusive, and I hope my story can show that you do not have to work long hours, nor weekends, not do you have to over-publish to be a good (and happy) scientist!
On my work & some advice
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02329-x
Featured in
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Research waste in ecology: urgent call for action
Only about 11 to 18 percent of ecological research reaches its full informative potential. Ignoring this problem is costly. The responsibility to solve it lies with funders, publishers, research institutions as well as with the researchers themselves.